Curious about upload speed setting

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Submitted by thescarletfire on Wed, 05/22/2013 - 14:08
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Nir,

Rather than possibly cluttering up the Feature Request page with an impossible task, I was just curious about something so I thought I'd ask you here first. I hope that's not a problem.

Basically, I am just curious if there is any feasible way to implement a sort of "per user group" upload limit. For example, all my users in the list called "Test" will have an upload speed limit of 100kb/sec (per user in the group). And for my user group called "Test2" they would have say, no limit, and so on.

Would a per-user-group upload limit be possible, or would that involve serious overhaul of code and whatnot? Perhaps this option would help highlight the benefits of actually taking the time to create and make use of this great Soulseek feature. I for one absolutely love having the power to configure my user list using groups, but I wonder how many people just glaze over that.

Just brainstorming. Either a upload-limit on a group-wide or a per user-in-group approach, I think both could work for Soulseek's advantage. Perhaps in the long haul.

Scarlet

Submitted by Nir on Mon, 05/27/2013 - 13:20.

It's doable, although not easily. I'm more concerned with it being too complicated for most people to use. Having separate bandwidth limits for different groups means it's very hard to track the overall bandwidth cap, which is really supposed to be a global setting. I'm going to have to say no to this one, at least in that particular form... or until I think about it some more :)

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Submitted by thescarletfire on Mon, 05/27/2013 - 17:10.

Makes sense when you put it like that - right on. Remember too, there's no such thing as a bad idea when brainstorming, right? ;)

Submitted by Nir on Mon, 05/27/2013 - 20:05.

Absolutely :)